March 13, 2020 To all the beloved people of UUFM— We find ourselves in uncertain times, when a tiny virus reveals just how interconnected we are with each other and the entire world. Yet the virus is not itself our interdependence; it is not the measure of our connection. The virus is nothing like the … Continue reading Service Canceled – UUFM Closure Due to COVID-19
In 1841, revered Unitarian minister Rev. Theodore Parker wrote a sermon entitled “The Transient and Permanent in Christianity,” a touchstone and a challenge for all UU ministers. Absent the surety of the Christian religion and scripture, what in our lives is transient and what permanent? “The Beloved sometimes wants/To do us a great favor:/Hold us … Continue reading Meditations on the Transient and the Permanent
Well, the word isn’t a verb, but resilience lived is an action, an active doing, creating, healing when we are confronted by destructive events or debilitating sorrow. Together, we’ll explore how to live into and build resilience in community. Soul Matters Monthly Theme: What does it mean to be a community of RESILIENCE?
Our 5th Principle calls us to affirm and promote “The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.” This principle requires that we each cultivate our individual conscience and that we respect the conscientiously made expressions of others. And then we discern, and we vote on … Continue reading The Democratic Spirit
Outrage is a strong emotion, and there is much in our everyday lives to spark the feeling. Yet outrage is not in itself an action for either good or ill. And further, it is a hard emotion to sustain, burning hot and subsiding quickly. How might we work individually and collectively to turn our outrage … Continue reading Outrage is a Privilege
January is the month of Integrity. And as we begin a new year, it is the perfect time to ask, “What is worship anyway? What’s it for, and how does it fit into my life?” Rev. Rita explores this topic, with hopes that at this time of the Christian Epiphany, you may behold for yourself … Continue reading Shaping the Worth of Worship
Despite pain and anguish, despite injustice and turmoil, love grows and thrives in a harmful and hurting world. Commemorating the birth of Jesus in the quiet dark of night reminds us of an abiding mystery—that love grows and even thrives in a harmful and hurting world. Join us for an evening service of reflection and … Continue reading Stories of Wonder and Awe
The great Unitarian religious educator Rev. Sophia Lyon Fahs wrote “Each night a child is born is a holy night,” and she meant, too, that each and every child is a holy being. Join us this Sunday as our Children’s Faith Development Team organizes a no-rehearsal pageant and hymn sing, with our blessed children bringing … Continue reading All-Gen, No-Rehearse Christmas Pageant
Out of control commercialism, deep loneliness and alienation, and some truly horrid music can make the Christmas season unbearable for many of us. Yet cultivating a sense of awe, “to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple; to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal,” this can bring … Continue reading An Awful, Awe-full Season
An All-generation Service featuring the UUFM Choir and led by Rev. Rita and Macey Page, Director of Children’s Faith Development. With words and images, with stories and readings and lots of music, we celebrate as a community the wonder of life and the call to live it fully and with attention. Coins collected are for … Continue reading Awesome Perspective
